Senior Manager, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Beyond Meat

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El Segundo, CA, United States

Posted on: 2023-04-13

Category: food

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Full time

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Senior

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About the company:

WE BELIEVE THERE’S A BETTER WAY TO FEED OUR FUTURE.

By shifting from animal to plant-based meat, we can positively affect the planet, the environment, the climate and even ourselves. After all, the positive choices we make every day – no matter how small – can have a great impact on our world.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

At Beyond Meat, we started with simple questions. Why do you need an animal to create meat? Why can’t you build meat directly from plants? Thus, we make plant-based meats that allow families to eat more, not less, of the traditional dishes they love while feeling great about the health, sustainability, and animal welfare benefits of plant protein. Our goal is to bring exciting change to the plate—and Beyond.

At Beyond Meat, we are focused on raising the bar on talent. We are dedicated to shaping an inclusive culture that drives excellence, innovation, and results by enabling talent acceleration and development, engagement, and the employee experience.

The Senior Manager, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) provides strategic leadership across a portfolio of ESG areas including climate, waste, packaging sustainability, social programs, and corporate governance. This individual will work with the Executive Leadership team to develop and affect an ESG strategy, objectives, and action plan. This role will also develop and affect governance of sustainability policies, standardized procedures and performance, and lead a cross-departmental Sustainability Steering Committee.

Beyond Meat is an equal employment opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, ancestry, veteran status, marital status, gender identify, sexual orientation, national origin, liability for military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. If you are interested in learning the status of your application, please note you will be contacted directly by the appropriate human resources contact person if you are selected for further consideration. Beyond Meat reserves the right to defer or close a vacancy at any time.

Please note that Beyond Meat has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees. All U.S. employees who (a) physically enter a Beyond Meat facility in the United States, (b) represent Beyond Meat at work-related events, including but not limited to trade shows and product demonstrations, or (c) physically enter customer or potential customer sites in connection with their work for Beyond Meat must take all necessary steps to be Fully Vaccinated as a condition of employment, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved.

TASKS, DUTIES, & GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

Design, refine, and implement a short and long-term strategic approach for Beyond Meat’s ESG ambitions

Continue to assess material issues as we grow and scale, partnering with external agencies and key stakeholders to build strategic models and a strategic roadmap for overall impact

Advance Beyond Meat’s ESG knowledge through information sourcing and sharing, partnership with sustainability experts and peers, and active participation in various industry and collaboration forums

Maintain awareness of global ESG trends and tools, metrics and KPI’s and share updates and implications with the broader Sustainability Steering Team

Conduct benchmarking assessments to assess ESG maturity against peers, and customer, and other stakeholder expectations

Measurement & Reporting

Subject matter expert on reporting with strong understanding of the role of Sustainability data, and how to link with business drivers and operational processes

Working knowledge of ESG Reporting frameworks, standards and certifications including GRI, SASB, UN Sustainable Development Goals, CDP, Ecovadis and B-Corp

Implement a structured and efficient data management approach with aim of increasing scope and data accuracy including introducing new technologies and methodologies

Working knowledge of Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions accounting and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, and experience in implementation of decarbonization strategies across commercial and industrial locations to include resource efficiency audits, integration of renewables, and offsets

Familiarity with waste minimization, water risk and resource efficiency, circularity, and sustainable packaging

Experience with sustainable sourcing and value chain risk assessment to include engaging suppliers on progressive sustainability performance

Monitoring and report on the impact and performance of sustainability initiatives and the performance against plan

Cross Functional Leadership

Create an authentic culture for business sustainability by raising awareness and understanding through targeted training, initiatives, expertise, and internal communication

Oversee cross-functional team on the Sustainability data collection process in close collaboration with relevant departments and teams, to include Ethics and Compliance, HR, EHS, Risk, IT, Legal and others.

Work with legal to comply with relevant regulatory bodies and customer requirements

Understanding of regulatory landscape as well as experience with product certification and familiarity with customer requirements

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Environmental, Social and Governance Specialist

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree (minimum), with preferably a masters, in topics such as environmental science, corporate sustainability and business management

Minimum of 7+ years’ work experience including sustainability program development and execution, ESG reporting and communications

Experience assembling highly effective and motivated, interdisciplinary teams in support of common purpose.

Experience with the investor rating organizations including MSCI, Sustainalytics, ISS, Moody’s and S&P

Familiarity with the global ESG regulatory landscape preferred.

Significant Project Management experience

Strategic and analytical mindset

Management and motivational experience/ skills

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written along with professional presentations skills, including the ability work with stakeholders at all levels

Strong business and financial acumen with a practical approach

Is comfortable and prefers to be a builder in a lean, agile environment

Visible passion for the business and capability to motivate and have a broad sphere of influence on the overall organization

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Ability to travel up to 20% of time

Position located in an office environment on-site in El Segundo, CA

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